#inherent

There are certain things that are inherently scarce. For example, there is only a certain amount of beachfront property in California. It is going to be scarce, it is going to be expensive. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#california #certain #certain things #example #expensive

All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#either #inherent #means #pain #pleasure

However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#far #however #impossible #inherent #least

A moment of silence is not inherently religious. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#moment #religious #silence

Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics. ↗

— Robert Quine

#inherently #like #makes #mathematics #me

A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas. ↗

— Paul Valery

#deprive #difficulties #him #his #ideas

There's an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I'll sabotage the hell out of them, just to make the music more of a sanctuary. ↗

— Daniel Johns

#hell #i #inherent #just #make

Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed to serve. The people are not masters of the bureaucracy, but its clients. ↗

— Alan Keyes

#bureaucracy #bureaucrats #clients #derive #inherently

It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable. ↗

— Rudy Rucker

#mind #processes #realize #soothing #uncontrollable

My purpose is to inspire people of all walks of life to discover the virtue inherent within them and to bring forth that virtue in their daily lives. ↗

— William Shirley

#daily #daily lives #discover #forth #inherent